Thursday, April 14, 2005

The Bar was lowered into hell recently......Help Bring it Back Up!

----Do you remember the name Rachel Corrie? She was a 23-year-old American peace activist who was crushed and killed by an Israeli army-driven Caterpillar bulldozer in Gaza in 2003. The story was tragic, and it brought to light the fact that in the last four years, a tenth of the population of Rafah have lost their homes as a result of Cat bulldozers being used by the Israeli military. Also, water wells, schools and hundreds of thousands of trees, have been razed by the Israeli army.The equipment has also been used to destroy ancient olive groves and roads in the West Bank and to construct the security wall cut into Palestinian territories which has been condemned by the International Court of Justice.The outcry against the Israeli army's crushing of Rachel Corrie under one of their over 100 Caterpillar bulldozers has initiated actions against and investigations into, her horrible and wrongful death. ---Read More

Yesterday was designated as an International Day of Action Against Caterpillar--the makers of the bulldozers, and Amnesty International has called for an investigation into Rachel Corrie's death.

Needless to say, there are people in this world who viewed the death of a Peace Activist as something to both make fun of and to profit from.

A right wing blog has recently published this ad for a mousepad with a pic of a toy bulldozer on it, and the words "Got Syrup" next to the toy. The syrup is a reference to the manner in which the young woman was killed.....

Cafe Press has it for sale, and the profits, naturally will go to that blog. It is doubtful if the Bruder toy company is aware that their toy is being used in this manner---as a symbol of a hateful killing. Why don't you help them to find out???????

Here's where the bulldozer photo came from, and the manufacturer, and the email address to get in touch with them:Bruder Toys Americaemail: info@brudertoys.com877-450-5152

The product (and photo, which was stolen): #02422 Catepillar BulldozerComplain about Cafe Press product categoryI haven't listed the name of the RWblog, as I will not give them any publicity, even horrendously negative publicity, but, it is easy to find out, if yo want to search it.

Quote of the Day
"When we get back to the states... ," NBC news anchor Brian Williams, forgetting he was in the United States

"...all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." ---Abraham Lincoln, First Innaugural Address......USA 2005--BE A BETTER ANGEL

FOR THE WAR? CLICK BELOW. AGAINST THE WAR? CLICK BELOW

"All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood to do the fighting for them."
--Emma Goldman, 1917

"When we get injured, all it says is `one soldier wounded,' " Specialist Acosta said, echoing others at Walter Reed. "Not that a soldier has lost an arm or a leg, or how hard that is."

"The story of what we've done in the postwar period is remarkable," Nethercutt, R-Wash. "It is a better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day."

THE CHILDREN OF IRAQ-- NEED YOU

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy
are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS." Mahatma Gandhi

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." --Bertrand Russell

"My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred." --Albert Einstein

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." --Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967